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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






2. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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3. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






4. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






5. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






6. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






7. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






8. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






9. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






10. A character struggles against some outside force.






11. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






12. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






13. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






15. The time and place of a story or play.






16. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






17. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






18. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






19. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






20. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






21. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






22. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






23. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






24. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






25. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






26. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






27. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






28. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






29. A short saying with a moral.






30. What a story or play is about.






31. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






32. The organizational form of a literary work.






33. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






34. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






35. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






36. A three-line stanza.






37. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






38. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






39. The dictionary meaning of a word.






40. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






41. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






42. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






43. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






44. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






46. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






47. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






48. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






49. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






50. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.